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chuck inhoff called hagel the wrong man for a job. senator inhoff points to list of serious concerns among them hagel's position on iran saying hush urged the bush administration to support iran in the world trade. he directeds with iran . threaten the security of israel. inhoff said hagel would push the plan to cut the size of our military. now the trouble in mali. bum pumadministration is seeking 32 million to train african troops to fight the extremist holds up there. weighing to provide air tankers to the french fighter jets. they are already helping by transporting french troops and equipment. france has 23,000 sold yerse there and wants the african nations to take the lead. it is a significant development in the battle al-qaida extremist. a look now in the ongoing civil war in sir yampt the united nations estimating willy i people have died since the uprising and reports that 200,000 syrian refugeeses are living in jordan. thousands more leave syria every day. the assad regime offering to let them return as part of a reconciliat
chuck inhoff called hagel the wrong man for a job. senator inhoff points to list of serious concerns among them hagel's position on iran saying hush urged the bush administration to support iran in the world trade. he directeds with iran . threaten the security of israel. inhoff said hagel would push the plan to cut the size of our military. now the trouble in mali. bum pumadministration is seeking 32 million to train african troops to fight the extremist holds up there. weighing to provide air...
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chuck hagel seeing red yesterday. he's back in the hot seat today at his confirmation hearing on capitol hill. will he be the secretary of defense? now peter doocy live in washington. >> there is no monster.com for cabinet positions. but defense with.gov says the secretary of defense is responsible for the formulation of general defense policy and president obama's nominee to be the next defense secretary had a hard time handling questions about some recent defense policy successes like the 2007 troop surge in iraq. >> will you please answer the question? will were you correct or incorrect when you said that the surge would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam? were you correct or incorrect? yes or no? >> my reference to the -- >> will you answer the question, senator hagel? the question is, were you right or wrong? that's a pretty straightforward question. i would like to answer whether you were right or wrong and then you are free elaborate. >> well, i'm not going to give you a
chuck hagel seeing red yesterday. he's back in the hot seat today at his confirmation hearing on capitol hill. will he be the secretary of defense? now peter doocy live in washington. >> there is no monster.com for cabinet positions. but defense with.gov says the secretary of defense is responsible for the formulation of general defense policy and president obama's nominee to be the next defense secretary had a hard time handling questions about some recent defense policy successes like...
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uma: do you think hagel will have no choice but to support the president's efforts, to cajole or work diplomatically with iran going forward to pressure them to stop their production. >> given chuck hagel's position on iran this he's expressed publicly i have no doubt he's of the same view of the administration. what the administration is setting up is legitimizing iran's nuclear program and thus permitting iran to get very, very close to breaking out and actually fabricating nuclear weapons or doing it in secret with us not being able to follow it that the threat of a nuclear iran is ever more pressing. uma: are you feeling then sanctions and diplomacy really won't work in this situation as you're dealing with iran, that the military option still need to be on the table and addressed very directly. >> sanctions and diplomas see are not going to work and they haven't worked for the last ten years of effort. iran will to the be talked out of its nuclear weapons program, even though the sanctions, which by the way the obama administration opposed in terms of the congressional lee impose
uma: do you think hagel will have no choice but to support the president's efforts, to cajole or work diplomatically with iran going forward to pressure them to stop their production. >> given chuck hagel's position on iran this he's expressed publicly i have no doubt he's of the same view of the administration. what the administration is setting up is legitimizing iran's nuclear program and thus permitting iran to get very, very close to breaking out and actually fabricating nuclear...
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>> i like chuck hagel. i served with him in the united states senate, but he's the wrong man for this job. >> gretchen: why? >> well, his positions on everything from a nuclear iran to direct negotiations with state department designated terrorist organizations like hamas, his embrace of these naive ideas like a nuclear free world, which, you know, is fine to say i hope and i wish and i pray that it would be that way burks it's not realistic and it's naive, particularly among the person who is supposed to represent american national security and keep the peace. and i worry that president obama has picked senator hagel because really the defense department is the only part of the government that he seems to be willing to cut. he's not really interested in reining in spending in almost any other area except national security. he said the sequester, which is the $1.2 trillion in cuts that are scheduled to go in effect, which disproportion athlete affect defense spending, the president said during the campaign,
>> i like chuck hagel. i served with him in the united states senate, but he's the wrong man for this job. >> gretchen: why? >> well, his positions on everything from a nuclear iran to direct negotiations with state department designated terrorist organizations like hamas, his embrace of these naive ideas like a nuclear free world, which, you know, is fine to say i hope and i wish and i pray that it would be that way burks it's not realistic and it's naive, particularly among...
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jack lew, dennis mcdonough, john kerry was confirmed yesterday, and chuck hagel, although that could be a fight. what does that line - up say to you about the next four years? >> continuity with wall street, perhaps a shift in foreign policy. >> steve: what else? >> it also says that the president is looking to people who he trusts. the thing about this president that needs to be understood is that he's willing to appoint people who may have opposed him. you have to realize he appointed hillary clinton. he appointed joe biden. now he has appointed john kerry. these are all people who ran against him for president. ray lahood is a republican. so the president will appoint people ho disagree with him, but at the same time, he wants people who he believes he can trust. look at dennis mcdonough who will be the chief of staff. he raised him up out of the national security council. >> steve: shower. what about some critics, and there is a picture right there. what about critics who say he's a control freak and he winds up getting rid of people who he's got a problem with? >> he's the presi
jack lew, dennis mcdonough, john kerry was confirmed yesterday, and chuck hagel, although that could be a fight. what does that line - up say to you about the next four years? >> continuity with wall street, perhaps a shift in foreign policy. >> steve: what else? >> it also says that the president is looking to people who he trusts. the thing about this president that needs to be understood is that he's willing to appoint people who may have opposed him. you have to realize he...